Should I Eat Back my Exercise Calories?

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  • Itisneeded
    Itisneeded Posts: 147 Member
    Ok thanks. I am exercising, but don't always eat up my calories gained by them. Never knew you could get inflammation, though. So, keep exercising, and keep eating then?
  • davontatobby
    davontatobby Posts: 1 Member
    Hi man, if it's your post, https://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=156304

    I wanted to comment: McFly-I Wanna Touch You - seems like I found the song

    @Wunderlandz
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    davontatobby wrote: »
    Hi man, if it's your post, https://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=156304

    I wanted to comment: McFly-I Wanna Touch You - seems like I found the song

    @Wunderlandz

    incredible
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,743 Member
    I have no clue what's going on but I love McFly!
  • mkculs13
    mkculs13 Posts: 681 Member
    MKEgal wrote: »
    My doctor & dietician told me not to eat exercise calories, and as a general rule I don't.
    Eat 10x your healthy goal weight in cal, ignore exercise calories most of the time, and eventually you'll get there.
    I'm a 5'5 female 19 year old currently at 159 lbs, and I'm trying to get down to 135-140
    Going by BMI, 115 - 145 is a healthy weight range. http://www.shapeup.org/bmi/bmi6.pdf
    So your goal is reasonable.
    I have to net around 1200 calories a day to lose 1.3-1.5 lbs per week
    Losing so fast is not reasonable when you only have 20 lb to lose.
    0.5 lb per week would be realistic, certainly no more than 1 lb, and that's going to take a lot of work.
    Adjust your goal so MFP thinks you'll lose 0.5 lb per week, ignore exercise calories, and it will work out fine.

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    This. You don't have much to lose, so take the slow, more realistic, "getting you ready to maintain for life" path.
    Good luck.


  • MercuryForce
    MercuryForce Posts: 103 Member
    MKEgal wrote: »
    My doctor & dietician told me not to eat exercise calories, and as a general rule I don't.
    Eat 10x your healthy goal weight in cal, ignore exercise calories most of the time, and eventually you'll get there.

    I feel like that is blanket advice and not great specific advice. Like, doctors will say that because people usually guess their calorie intake rather than measuring. So, "don't eat back your exercise calories" is good for someone that measures out a cup of crackers, because they are likely underestimating their calorie intake, but less good for someone that weighed out 30 g of crackers.

    And of course, it depends on what the exercise is. I'm not necessarily going to eat back the 300 calories burned from a yoga class, but I'm definitely eating back some of the 600 burned while spinning or the 1,000 burned cross-country skiing.

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